The Make Believe World of Maxfield Parrish and Sue Lewin by Alma Gilbert (1990, Paperback, Illustrated)

I must tell you my dear readers that I first encountered Maxfield Parrish at the age of 14 while reading The Arabian Nights...He entered my heart and is still there and I am now at the ripe age of 58...at 16 I discovered girls and forgot about Maxfield...life went on Viet Nam came and went;and I went on to work on Wall Street...then one day as I was reading the N.Y.Times I read an article on Mr. Parrish that shed a new lubricious light on the man I considered the apex of fantasy...pirates, genies, elves, neubile nude figures of ambiguous gender...the Times article disclosed that workmen restoring The Maxfields Family Home (The Oaks)...or perhapes more correctley his two homes...one the fasade of proper New Endland mores...and the secound home(his studio) which I shall call his secret love nest ...where he and his lover/model/cook/secratary a local girl of a rather tender age (16) Miss Sue Lewin resided...the workmen came upon hidden photografic plates of Miss Lewin in the nude the times article said many of these "artistic" plates were brought out into the light of Truth (as it is now uncontestable that she and Maxfield were very intimate)when asked in 1918 about her relationship with Maxfield Sue declaired "I'll have you know that Mr. Parrish has never seen my bare knee"...Defending Maxfield she blatently LIED....one wonders like I do...was Sue Lewin capable of protecting Mr. parrish in a most physical way..let me explain...my dear reader... and soon a winding path may appear in your mind as it did in mine (I am very intuitive and love sorid secrets brought to light)...Now I was like a hound on a scent and bought Coy Ludwig's book Maxfield Parrish...one short line on Sue Lewin....well there are more than one way to skin a cat ..so it is said...So I searched and to my great joy I discovered "The Make Believe World of Maxfield Parrish and SUE LEWIN" written by Ms. ALMA GILBERT...Wow Ms.Gilbert is very gentile in her writting the story ...but all one has to do is read between the lines and sniff out the possible truth as i have done after readind Ms. Gilberts wonderfully subtle book!...Soon after reading her book twice my mind was reeling at the possibilities...placed on the path laid down by Ms Gilbert...after Miss Lewin's placement at The Oaks....her two younger sisters were hired by Mr Parrish to work at The Oaks..(wow 3 sisters...oh Joy I think Mr. Parrish thought)well Annie was to be the cook...and Emily to help Sue and Mrs. Lydia Parrish with the Parrish children...3 boys and one girl named Jean (we will hear more about sweet little Jean..be patient dear reader).Three local village lads came on rough rocky and muddy trails to court Sue...but soon saw that her attachment to Maxwell was cemented in adoration (and lust as proven by the images on the hidden plates) one strapping lad Mr.Kimball Daniels began to court Sue's sister Annie and they married in August 1911...H was hired to work at The Oaks tending livestock and harvesting the crops..and he was familiar with all the paths on the property...yet in a mystery as yet unsolved he was found dead of a broken neck on the Parrish Property..(could one imagine a secret soon to be revealed) so let us view him walking in front of a trusted friend...Sue perhaps..and at the right moment in the dark his neck was broken with a stout walking stick....so the secret his wife Annie told him ...would remain a secret forever..(to be continued dear readers) if e-bay gives me more writing space!..TPS